By John Delery | December 28, 2011 at 12:35 pm | 5 comments
Politicians usually work the crowd, fishing for votes,but last night during an open-mic night at Helium Comedy Club in Philly, former Sen. Arlen Specter worked the room, trawling for laughs, and he caught a cadre of lawmakers in his net.
A Republican during most of his...
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By John Delery | September 16, 2011 at 11:05 am | 5 comments
Editor's note: Listen, we're not usually the one's trying to make you laugh. And, honestly, we're not going to make a habit out of it because, frankly, we respect comedians too much to try to tread on their ground. But this just had to be done. So, hopefully you get a few laughs...
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By John Delery | September 15, 2011 at 12:12 pm | One comment
The people pulling the strings on The Muppets are cleverly yanking our chains in the trailer for the upcoming movie of the same name: The comedy unabashedly cadges the music, style and thrilling pulse of the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trailer and also seems to shout...
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By John Delery | June 23, 2011 at 2:01 pm | No comments
All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players…auditioning for another sequel to Jackass: Yup, that about summarizes the thesis of Neverlution, Christopher Titus’ latest riotous eruption from Comedy Central Records (available on June 28). The companion...
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By John Delery | June 23, 2011 at 1:44 pm | No comments
All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players…auditioning for another sequel to Jackass: Yup, that about summarizes the thesis of Neverlution, Christopher Titus’ latest riotous eruption from Comedy Central Records (available on June 28). The companion...
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By John Delery | June 16, 2011 at 10:42 am | No comments
Only a certain kind of comic can adventurously open his set with a death riff.
For lack of a better word (because there is no other word, until now), we will call this sort of confidently kooky comedian: grimsical. Yeah, yeah: half grim, half whimsical.
Norm Macdonald acts...
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